Month: September 2019

Attorney Victor Hardy Wows with Remarkable String of Legal Victories

A Harvard Law School graduate, attorney Victor Hardy is a veteran of the world of high-stakes patent infringement litigation and PTO proceedings with decades of experience as a highly acclaimed lawyer. From patent negotiation to strategic enforcement of IP assets, a number of Hardy’s most impressive legal victories has recently been revealed following an exceptionally successful career spanning more than 20 years to date.

Hardy specializes in internet search and multimedia streaming technology and has previously successfully enforced campaigns against both industries under multiple portfolios. During his career, he has had extensive involvement in almost every aspect of the legal trial process, and in a broad range of contexts. These, Hardy recently revealed, have ranged from the cross-examination of Johnson & Johnson’s World Wide Chairman of Consumer Products in a patent infringement trial to arguing to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Victor Hardy is also highly experienced in patent finance and investment, patent negotiation and acquisition, patent valuation, due diligence, and the strategic enforcement of IP assets, with the acclaimed lawyer also a founding member of a pioneering patent acquisition private equity fund. Subsequently, Hardy has evaluated thousands of patents for purposes ranging from business investment to enforcement on behalf of leading IP investment institutions. The lawyer has previously been widely praised for using his extensive litigation experience to bring a real-world perspective to financial modeling and the valuation of patent assets.

Elsewhere, Hardy has substantial experience in class action civil rights matters, including discrimination under Title VII and the ADEA.

Significant legal successes for Victor Hardy include representing the plaintiff in Personal Audio v. Acer et al./Google et al. over Google Play and Xbox Music products wherein which he resolved disputes with 13 defendants.

Hardy also represented the plaintiff in Preservation Technologies v. Netflix et al., an industry-wide patent infringement lawsuit involving foundational patents in video streaming systems. To date, he has successfully resolved disputes with 85 percent of the video streaming industry and remains in active litigation with the adult film industry.

The acclaimed attorney also represented the plaintiff in Software Rights Archive v. Google et al., an industry-wide patent infringement case involving foundational patents directed towards non-semantic search engine algorithms, and represented sixteen plaintiffs in EEOC v. Allied Aviation, a class action racial discrimination lawsuit. The latter case, it is said, resulted in the largest settlement in the history of the Dallas office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, garnering extensive national media attention at the time.

Hardy was also a senior member of the trial team for plaintiff Applera Corp. in Applera and Roche Molecular Systems v. MJ Research, represented Universal Instruments in Aguayo v. Universal Instruments, defendant Compal Electronics in an industry-wide patent infringement suit involving power management in notebook computers, desktop PCs, and monitors, and was one of the trial counsel for defendant Delta Air Lines, Inc. in Process Resources v. Delta Air Lines, Inc., a patent infringement suit involving three-layer composite thermal paper used in airline baggage tags.

Attorney Victor Hardy also represented CompUSA in a turnover proceeding brought by the debtor Tomorrow’s Toys. The case was favorably settled for an amount which was a small fraction of what the plaintiff was seeking, according to the lawyer.

To learn more about Victor Hardy, visit https://victorhardyattorney.com/.

Victor Hardy Looks Back on Infamous Golden Demon Awards Event

Award-winning artist and attorney Victor Hardy looks back on the now-notorious Golden Demon Awards 2004 event.

Victor Hardy, a well-respected attorney from Austin, Texas, is also a renowned artist, famed around the world for his miniature painting triumphs and his involvement with the popular wargame Warhammer 40,000. Best known for the classic piece Golgotha, which remains one of the top-rated piece of miniature painting on the hobby’s leading and most well-established website, the lawyer and artist looks back on the infamous 2004 Golden Demon Awards.

“My most famous piece of miniature painting, Golgotha, is central to this tale,” reveals Hardy. It’s a story, he says, which until fairly recently had not been told, despite occurring 15 years ago now. “I must start by saying that the people I met at the Golden Demon Awards 2004 in the U.K. were incredible, and among those, it was my French counterparts who made the greatest impression on me,” suggests the artist and attorney.

The Golden Demon Awards, sponsored by Games Workshop, are named after the most coveted award presented during the annual competition of the same name. “Held each year, the awards are considered by many to represent the pinnacle of miniature painting,” explains Hardy. The awards, he says, often demonstrate the very finest work from the world’s very best miniature painters.

“At the now-notorious Golden Demon Awards 2004 event I had the pleasure of spending the day with, among others, Jeremy Bonamant, Bruno Grelier, Jacque Alexandre, and David Waeselynck,” reveals Hardy. They had, he goes on to explain, all traveled in a van together from France to the U.K. for the event, even sleeping in the vehicle the night before the awards.

“These guys were crazy!” exclaims Victor. “They were all so enthusiastic and passionate about the miniature painting hobby that they were on just another level,” he adds.

Victor would spend much of the day talking to his French allies about painting and admiring their work. “It was awesome,” he recalls, “and even today, 15 years on, I still have so much respect for their talents.”

“Not since the Battle of Hastings did the French do so well on British soil!” jokes Hardy. The French, he reveals, swept the Golden Demon Awards 2004 and Jacque Alexander took home the prized Slayer Sword trophy.

Despite the now-famous nature of Victor’s piece Golgotha, which he had entered into the 2004 event, the artwork was controversially disqualified. “My new friend, Frenchman Bruno Grelier had entered into the same category and subsequently won,” Hardy reveals.

“Now,” he continues, “here’s the amazing part.”

Bruno Grelier, Victor Hardy reveals, having seen that Golgotha had been disqualified, gave the artist and attorney his Golden Demon trophy and asked him to take it. “Bruno insisted I should have it because he felt that I deserved it,” he explains.

Prior to attending the event, the pair had never met before. “We didn’t even speak a common language,” points out Hardy, “and, yet, he gave one of the most precious things a Golden Demon Awards competitor can have to a complete stranger.”

Sadly, Bruno Grelier passed away a few years later in June 2012.

“Only someone who was totally passionate and crazy about the hobby,” adds Hardy, wrapping up, “could’ve done what he did, and Bruno remains fondly remembered both by myself and countless others within the miniature painting world.”

Victor Hardy Highlights Comments from Fans of His Miniature Artwork

Attorney and award-winning artist Victor Hardy shares a number of comments from fans of his miniature painting masterpieces.

A seasoned attorney specializing in patent infringement litigation and investment, due diligence, and intellectual property law, in his spare time, Texas legal professional Victor Hardy is also a celebrated artist. Famed for his miniature painting masterpieces, award-winner and miniature painting legend Hardy shares a number of comments received from fans of his work.

“It all started around 1991,” explains Hardy, from Austin, Texas, “while I was completing my studies at university.”

Over the course of close to three decades, Victor Hardy has gone on to exhibit his work both in-person and online. Feedback for almost every one of his pieces, he says, has been overwhelmingly positive.

“Gorgeous, brilliant, an inspiration,” says Sanjay, a particular fan of Victor’s work. “I think Victor Hardy is astounding, and with his busy job and such, his artwork is a testament to his patience and skill,” he adds.

Another fan of the attorney and artist’s work calls it sublime. “It’s sublime,” they suggest of perhaps Hardy’s most famous piece of miniature painting, a figure known as Golgotha.

“A two-dimensional picture won’t adequately display how the freehand blends together as you view the piece from different angles,” suggests their comment on the work. “It is,” they continue, “without being melodramatic, a pinnacle, reached by a true artist.”

“Marvelous!! There is nothing else I can say,” suggests another comment on the same piece.

Victor Hardy‘s most famous work of art remains the most popular piece of miniature painting on the internet’s largest gallery of painted miniatures. Outside of his work and love of miniature painting, Victor Hardy also maintains a long-held passion for philosophy. The study of fundamental questions surrounding knowledge, existence, reason, values, language, and the mind, within philosophy, such questions are often posed as problems.

“These problems,” adds Victor Hardy, wrapping up, “are then closely studied with a view to finding a resolution, which is, perhaps, what I love most about philosophy.”

From Software Rights Archive v. Google et al to active social network industry litigation, attorney Victor Hardy specializes in online and multimedia patent infringement litigation, liquidation proceedings, due diligence, intellectual property law, civil rights matters, and class action discrimination lawsuits. A Harvard Law School, University of Houston, and University of Texas Law School graduate from Austin, Texas, he today has more than 20 years of experience in high-stakes law.

Victor Hardy Shares Interest in Philosophy

Award-winning artist and attorney Victor Hardy shares his passion for the millennia-old field of study stemming from an ancient Greek love of wisdom.

The study of fundamental questions surrounding knowledge, existence, reason, values, language, and the mind, philosophy stems from the Greek word philosophia, meaning a love of wisdom. A successful attorney and renowned artist, Victor Hardy offers a closer look at his interest in the field of study, which now dates back thousands of years.

“The study of fundamental questions surrounding knowledge, existence, reason, values, language, and the mind, within philosophy, such questions are often posed as problems,” explains Hardy. These problems, he says, are then closely studied with a view to finding a resolution. “The term was most likely coined by Pythagoras of Samos,” suggests the attorney, “the ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the founder of Pythagoreanism.”

For thousands of years, philosophical methods have included critical discussion, questioning, systematic presentation, and rational argument. “Classic philosophical questions,” explains Hardy, “include ‘Is it possible to know anything and to prove it?’ and ‘What is most real?'”

More concrete questions, he says, such as ‘Is there a best way to live?’ or ‘Do humans have free will?’ may also be addressed by philosophers.

According to Hardy, philosophy historically encompassed any body of knowledge. “So-called natural philosophy, for example,” explains the attorney and artist, “encompassed medicine, physics, and astronomy.”

Since the 19th century, however, the growth of modern research-led universities has, he says, seen academic philosophy and other disciplines start to specialize and professionalize. “Today, what less than 200 years ago may have been considered to be entirely philosophical in nature, we now have distinct academic disciplines for,” reveals the expert.

These distinct academic disciplines, he says, include sociology, economics, psychology, and linguistics.

“Other areas of focus, closely related, for example, to art and other pursuits, have, at the same time,” adds Hardy, wrapping up, “remained part of philosophy.”

From Software Rights Archive v. Google et al to active social network industry litigation, attorney Victor Hardy specializes in online and multimedia patent infringement litigation, liquidation proceedings, due diligence, intellectual property law, civil rights matters, and class action discrimination lawsuits. A Harvard Law School, University of Houston, and University of Texas Law School graduate from Austin, Texas, he today has more than 20 years of experience in high-stakes law.

In his spare time, attorney Victor Hardy enjoys a passion for miniature painting, inspired by popular wargame Warhammer 40,000. For more than a decade, the multi-award-winning artist has been responsible for one of the internet’s most famous and revered pieces of miniature painting.